[[Image:Pyflash.png]] This is a flashcard application written in PyGTK for learning words, sentences and other factual data. It supports UTF-8 and has been successfully tested with Japanese and Arabic characters. It also runs on all desktops and laptops that have PyGTK installed.

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[[Image:Pyflash.png]] This is a flashcard application written in PyGTK for learning words, sentences and other factual data. It supports UTF-8 and has been successfully tested with Japanese, Arabic and Devanagri (Nepali and Hindi) characters. It also runs on all desktops and laptops that have PyGTK installed. For download, see [http://www.opkg.org/package_198.html package at OPKG.org] and [https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyflash/ project at SourceForge].

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==Screenshots==

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To get to the source, see [http://pyflash.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pyflash/pyflash/src/usr/share/pyflash/pyflash.py?view=markup SVN] or download the opk file and do an 'ar x pyflash.opk', then you will get a bunch a files. One of them is a .tar.gz which holds the source code. for the moment, this is the only way to get to the source.

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=Screenshots=

<gallery caption="Four standard ways of using the application" heights="100px">

<gallery caption="Four standard ways of using the application" heights="100px">

Image:Pyflash-screenshot-normal-portrait.png|normal portrait

Image:Pyflash-screenshot-normal-portrait.png|normal portrait

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Note that the 'Open' button is disabled in fullscreen mode, because the popup will be in the background and user is unable to control the dialog that has the current focus.

Note that the 'Open' button is disabled in fullscreen mode, because the popup will be in the background and user is unable to control the dialog that has the current focus.

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==Format==

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=Decks of flashcards=

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An example of the versatile format based upon [http://www.polarcloud.com/kanji Remebering the Kanji] is given here:

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口;N868 NN685 KL2119 U53E3;RK11 S3 G1 F284 R30 口:mouth:コウ、ク、くち

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At the moment the following flashcard sets are available inside the pyflash package:

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* Source '''kanjidic''' collection which is shipped with the gjiten package. This set is superseding the Remembering the Kanji flashcards part 3. Several decks are available:

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**kanjidic-g1, 80 flashcards, only first grade kanji (first year in school)

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**kanjidic-g2, 160 flashcards, only second grade kanji

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**kanjidic-g3, 200 flashcards, only third grade kanji

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**kanjidic-g4, 200 flashcards, only fourth grade kanji

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**kanjidic-g5, 185 flashcards, only fifth grade kanji

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**kanjidic-g6, 181 flashcards, only sixth grade kanji

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**kanjidic-g8, 939 flashcards, only eight grade kanji

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**kanjidic-g9, 287 flashcards, only nineth grade kanji

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**kanjidic-g-, 4123 flashcard, no grade kanji (more difficult)

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**kanjidic, 6355 flashcards, all kanji from this source

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* Source '''Wikipedia''' collection of alphabets. Several decks are available:

Default kanjidic-g1 will be loaded. The application will store the latest deck path in ~/.pyflashrc and if this file is available, it that deck path will be used as default.

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The part before the first : is the question. There, the characters before the first ; is the actual question. e.g. 口 or 日. Other characters of that part form the explanation of the question. Extra ; in there will trigger a new line in the explaination as can be seen in the screenshots. The part in between the middle two : is the answer and the part after the last : is the explanation or pronunciation of the answer.

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=Format=

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An example of the versatile format based upon [http://www.polarcloud.com/kanji Remembering the Kanji] is given here:

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Note that the answer and pronunciation will only appear after tapping the text area of the application.

The part before the first : is the question. There, the characters before the first ; is the actual question. e.g. 口 or 日. Other characters of that part form the explanation of the question. Extra ; in there will trigger a new line in the explanation as can be seen in the screenshots. The part in between the middle two : is the answer and the part after the last : is the explanation or pronunciation of the answer.

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Note that the answer and pronunciation will only appear after tapping the text area of the application. Here the explanation of the question is used to flood the screen with all sort of data, e.g. U53E3 is the unicode ID and the kanji at the end is the radical used for quick look up in dictionaries.

Latest revision as of 17:29, 10 July 2009

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This is a flashcard application written in PyGTK for learning words, sentences and other factual data. It supports UTF-8 and has been successfully tested with Japanese, Arabic and Devanagri (Nepali and Hindi) characters. It also runs on all desktops and laptops that have PyGTK installed. For download, see package at OPKG.org and project at SourceForge.

To get to the source, see SVN or download the opk file and do an 'ar x pyflash.opk', then you will get a bunch a files. One of them is a .tar.gz which holds the source code. for the moment, this is the only way to get to the source.

The part before the first : is the question. There, the characters before the first ; is the actual question. e.g. 口 or 日. Other characters of that part form the explanation of the question. Extra ; in there will trigger a new line in the explanation as can be seen in the screenshots. The part in between the middle two : is the answer and the part after the last : is the explanation or pronunciation of the answer.

Note that the answer and pronunciation will only appear after tapping the text area of the application. Here the explanation of the question is used to flood the screen with all sort of data, e.g. U53E3 is the unicode ID and the kanji at the end is the radical used for quick look up in dictionaries.

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This is a flashcard application written in PyGTK for learning words, sentences and other factual data. It supports UTF-8 and has been successfully tested with Japanese and Arabic characters. It also runs on all desktops and laptops that have PyGTK installed.

Screenshots

Four standard ways of using the application

normal portrait

fullscreen portrait

normal landscape

fullscreen landscape

Note that the 'Open' button is disabled in fullscreen mode, because the popup will be in the background and user is unable to control the dialog that has the current focus.

The part before the first : is the question. There, the characters before the first ; is the actual question. e.g. 口 or 日. Other characters of that part form the explanation of the question. Extra ; in there will trigger a new line in the explaination as can be seen in the screenshots. The part in between the middle two : is the answer and the part after the last : is the explanation or pronunciation of the answer.

Note that the answer and pronunciation will only appear after tapping the text area of the application.